Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1962 Page: 4 of 16
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^ The Claude News, Claude, An nstronf Oo., Texas, JUNE 21, 1962.
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Medicare
Have had more people jump me
about the Medicare bill. They
have said, in effect, "Give the
bill a fit, we don't want the thing
around our neck." I've said a
great deal and if you are opposed
to the bill and haven't written
your Senators and Congressman
there's no point jumping me. My
influence is nill if you fail to
write, and so is yours.
Also, are you interested in the
"planned Famine" bill? Any gov-
ernment that has instituted tight
controls over its farmers has end-
ed up on a starvation diet. Wit-
ness Russia, China and Cuba. But
we are still naive enough to
believe in Santa Clause, so guess
we'll have to be shown.
Finish
Either the last of this week or
early next week we will see the
wind up of "Hud Bannon" that
has been on location here since
the latter part of May. It has
been an interesting experience
for virtually everyone in the
county.
For a time it seemed they
might change the name of the
film to "Frogpunchers" or "The
The Claude News
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AH resolutions of
th nV« PU
«od«*y functions,
li charted, la "
card of
Web-footed Bannons." I've never
seen so much rain all at one
time in my life and some of the
"Bannon" crew admit that it
wasn't in the script as far as
they were concerned.
Notice the Gem Theater will
feature "The Apartment" Satur-
day and Sunday, starring Joan
Woodward and Paul Newman.
This should give us an insight
into Newman's acting ability. But
the one film most of us will
want to see, come November or
December, is "Hud Bannon."
We say, "So long," to the crew
and wish them the best.
Who smokes?
One report states more than 60
million Americans over the age
of 18 smoke. Do smokers have
any personality traits in common?
Researchers in a study of 2,360
male subjects offer three major
premises: (1) Extroverts are heav-
ier smokers than introverts; (2)
The more emotionally unstable a
man is, the heavier he smokes;
(3) People with rigid or puritani-
cal personalities smoke the least.
Now we know
See where a strong supporter of
Don Yarborough, has sounded the
call to ultra-liberal colors. He
classifies himself as a true-blue
Democrat, but tells us the ob-
jective of Texas liberals "is to
defeat the Republican who mas-
querades as a Democrat, elect a
Republican who admits he is a
Republican and who is satisfied
to control the Republican party
and not interfere in the Demo-
cratic party, and return the De-
mocratic party in Texas to the
hands of real Democrats."
In otherwords he would have
us believe the true Texas Demo-
crat is a socialist-liberal and if
they can't have their way they'll
take their vote and go home.
The whole thinking processes of
these neurotic socialistic-liberals
is completely foreign to anything
American or just in a free world.
They continually sound the siren
call to free, easy government
money for everybody when such
does not and has never existed.
They envision a Utopian socialistic
society not unlike Red Russia, so
why in the name of blazes don't
they pack their pink little souls
and move over there instead of
trying to ruin the only free gov-
ernment ever devised by man?
Safe driving plan
The State Board of Insurance
will hold hearings June 29 on
automobile insurance rates and
rules.
High on the agenda will be pro-
proposals to revise drastically the
"safe driving insurance plan" by
which those with accident or traf-
fic law violations pay more, while
those without them pay less.
Statisticans say the plan has
cut rates for 78 per cent, raised
them for 22 per cent. But the
complaints about the plan being
received by legislators indicates
that even those who save aren't
too happy with the possibility
that one slip might run up their
rates.
Drastic revision is possible. With
out revision of the plan, a rate
cut is in the cards. But if pen-
alty provisions are reduced, it
may wipe out the chance of a
rate cut.
Board members and the insur-
ance industry are divided as to
what to do. Largest of the in-
surance agent's associations is
taking a poll of its members to
see what they—and their custo-
mers—think should be done a-
bout it.
Remember Sacco-Vaniettl?
Those who would destroy our
faith in American justice got
milage after milage of propagan-
da out of the Nicolo Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti case. Long
wailing cries went up via movies,
TV and what have you concern-
ing the betrayal of innocent
blood and how unjust our court
systems were.
Recently a person who remain-
ed interested in the case, round-
ed up the two pistols and the
murder bullets figuring in the
trial. He took them to two fire-
arms experts and tested the wea-
pons by new ballistic techniques
not known at the time of the
trial. The experts proved that the
death bullet came from Sacco's
gun.
The propaganda damage has
long since been done but it is
refreshing to know American
justice is still head and shoulders
above the justice advocated by
these pseudo-liberals who sit up
the wailing-wall in the first place.
WASHINGTON AND
SMALL BUSINESS"
Misleading ways
The National Review writes;
"These children are being cheat-
ed," shrieked the title of a sen-
sational feature article in the
April "Journal" of the National
Education Assoliation. It was a
picture story of rundown, un-
painted, overcrowded schools, a
documentary to the crying need
for immediate federal aid to edu-
cation. Except for one omission
which touched off an alarm in
the suspicious minds of the Re-
publican Congressional Commit-
tee—none of the schools were
identified. Well, it seems that
Mildred Fenner, editor of the
"Journal" had, somehow, mis-
placed the caption material. When
she finally did remember the lo-
cation of the schools it turned
out that three of them in Carter
County, Tennessee are, at the
moment, being replaced with mod-
ern, up-to-date schools (built
without benefit of federal aid,
thank you) as are—it also turned
out—all the other rundown scho-
ols depicted. When NEA lobbyist
Dr. John Lumley was asked why
only one side of the story had
been told in the article, he re-
torted with a splendid affirma-
tion of that academic freedom for
which the NEA is so justly noted:
"To us, there is only one side."
Something to ponder
Although I do not agree with
the whole of Tom Anderson's
"Straight Talk" this month, the
first part of his editorial is worth
thinking about. What ho points
out here too often happens in
our society and reveals the ser-
ious decay we have reached. Tom
Anderson writes:
Who "outdrew" Billie the Kid
Estes? The man most responsible
for his "capture" is a doctor, a
patriot named John Dunn. On
Independence Day, 1960, Dr. Dunn
and his partner. Dr. Harlow Av-
ery, published the first issue of
the "Pecos Independent" under
their ownership. They bought the
weekly paper to crusade for good
government. Dr. Dunn is a mem-
ber of the much-maligned John
Birch Society. He believes in its
creed: less government, more in-
dividual responsibility, and a bet-
ter world. About two years ago
he began quietly investigating
Billie Sol Estes' activities which
out-smelled the ether in his op-
erating room. Dr. Dunn sent
photostats of his findings, start-
ing about a year ago, to three
people, of whom I was one. In
case Dunn was done in, we had
the evidence. Billie Sol's news-
paper and friends smeared Dunn
and the John Birch Society
When Dunn's evidence became
overwhelming, he took it to Dan
Smoot, a great Texas conserva-
tive and former FBI agent. Smoot
mo claudb on next ptgt
By C. WILSON HARDER
Congressman Tom Johnson
of Maryland is just one of the
many members of Congress
who look askance at proposal
for Federal government to con-
trol farm production.
• *
Obviously, for years the vari-
ous farm pro-
grams have
been failures.
In the 27
years be-
tween 1933
and the end
of fiscal 19601
the price sup-
port pro-
grams had
cost the tax-
payers $10 c. W. Harder
billion. In addition, payments
under conservation, other pro-
grams, run about two-thirds of
a billion per year. Storage costs
on surplus farm products are
said to currently run about $1%
million per day.
♦ * *
So, averaging everything out,
it appears that farm programs
are costing slightly under $1%
billion per year. This is a great
burden on the taxpayers.
* * *
On the other hand, since end
of World War II, U.S. taxpay-
ers have put up an average of
almost $6!£ billion per year for
foreign give away.
* * '*
Now the plan is to keep on
with foreign give aways, in-
cluding billions for communist
Tito, but to eliminate farm
payments at least in part, U.S.
farmer is to be regimented.
* * *
Congressman Johnson ex-
plains that the program would
place severe restrictions on
the production of nirn, oats,
barley, grain sorghums, and
farmers would need govern-
ment permission to grow the=e
crops. Restrictions would be
:>laced on wheat planting, and
<lch cows would be ordered
': * '1 ''•''w.n (if Independent RihIiim
to slow down.
* * *
In the meantime half the
world goes hungry. And a
great part of these people in
hunger are the very people
it Is being sought to influence
away from communism.
* * ♦
It would seem that if the mil-
lion and a half dollars per day
being used to store surplus
food, were used to give away
surplus food to the desperate
people, the cause of peace
would be much better served
than serving away an average
of more than $18 million per
day in form of foreign give
aways to foreign politicians.
cartels, and other big interests.
* * *
In addition, cutting off im-
ports of food would also aid
the American farmer as the
U.S. imports more food than
it exports. After deducting cof-
fee which is not grown in the
U.S. the value of U.S. food
imports is $2'/fe billion. The
value of U.S. food exports is
$2Vfe billion. But inasmuch as
the export values are based on
U.S. prices, and the import
values of foreign prices, the
tonnage of food imported is
greater than that exported.
* * *
It is doubtful the farmer
wants to surrender his freedom.
* * *
But the American farmer is
learning that a little bureauc-
racy is a dangerous thing and
that history teaches once bu-
reaucrats establish even a
small beachead it almost takes
blood at the barricades to push
them out again.
* * *
For since the Caesars, bu-
rea iicrats have always sought
to cover up their own ineptness
and errors by getting issued
the edicts which regiment; the
'aws that fitrce compliance.
This is Mi" position the farmer
now finds himself in.
IDEAS
FROM
OTHER
EDITORS
From the Catskill Mountain
Star, Saugerties, New York;
There's no question about it now
—on its 85th anniversary—there's
nothing like a bike!
Bicycles are for the young—and
for those who stay young. And in
May, America's traditional "Bike
Month," the two-wheelers hit an
all-time high in their four-score
years of unchallenged popularity
with 55 million of the ehain-anci-
sprocket set in the saddle across
the nation!
History has been made since the
first bike was turned out in Hart-
ford, Conn., in 1877. The pneuma-
tic tire was invented, then ball-
bearings. The automobile came
along, and received considerable
impetus from a couple of bicycle-
fanciers, Henry Ford and R. E.
Olds. After a great while a couple
of bicycle repair men, Wilbur and
Orville Wright, built the first air-
plane that would fly.
"Bloomers' were invented for
the benefit of the bicycle—which
led to the discovery that girls
have legs. Thus you may blame
the bicycle (if you wish) for the
fact that these arc currently dis-
played in culottes, toreador pants,
pedal-pushers and shorts.
Bicycles are useful, too—for
fun, for physical fitness and for
rock-bottom economical transpor-
tation. Bicycles are still launching
business carecrs—just as they did
a couple of generations ago—on
newspaper routes and delivery
jobs of all sorts. They take pounds
ofT—or put them on where needed
by promoting appetite and glow-
ing health. And we've heard they
do things for figure control. Out-
side of the old Six-Day Races, no-
body ever rode a bike without
getting lots of fresh air.
Young riders, who are thinking
mostly about fun, will want copies
of the booklet "America's Ail-
Time Ten Best Bike Games,"
which bicycle dealers are giving
out free during May. Besides the
games, they contain the 12 basic
rulcs-of-the-road, riding tips and
an inspection chart that every boy
and girl—and many fathers—will
want.
There's nothing like a bike I
Think you can still ride one?
Merchants Are Wise, They Advertise
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